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I shall be away next week; posts will resume around the 8th of February. In the meantime, the most dispiriting story of the past few days is identified by Stephen Pollard in The Times, the least perceptive and self-critical resignation statement I can recall is reproduced here, and the early work of the greatest living writer in the English language is available here.

Comments

[David T]

Dear Oliver

I shall take this opportunity to burgle your house.

Best wishes

David

[PooterGeek]

Several of Oliver's recent posts have been spammed by those anarchic free-marketeers "casino-jp.com". I contend that Mr Kamm has left himself open to such attacks by subscribing to the complacent, inflexible, corporatist TypePad system.

With a little application (no pun intended), he could take advantage of the inherent superiority of truly open source development to repel such exploits. I recommend that he installs both Movable Type and the similarly marvellous MT-Blacklist. They work for me.

Taking collaborative and meritocratic scientific ideals as a model for human endeavours, open source is the only novel and radical political movement to emerge in the last 50 years. Discuss.

[Tony]

John Updike greater than Saul Bellow? You jest!

[john b]

TypePad is MT, isn't it?

[PooterGeek]

Not quite---they come from the same company, though. TypePad is to MT as a pack of twenty is to hand-rolled tobacco; as a point-and-click is to a manual SLR; as a BMW Z3 is to a Jaguar E-Type; as a... Uh-oh, here come the Analogy Police.

[Dan]

"posts will resume around the 8th of February"

Kammfans tapping their blogwatches, betraying tell-tale tics, jonesing for their promised fix of eloquent commentary, witty withdrawl bringing on thought-bubble vulgarizations of the Bard: If thou cuttest us, doeth we nayt bleed?

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